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Creating Action Heroes : Change The Way We Create and Perceive Women's Experience With Violence

The images above are frequently used by the press in India to report violence against women. The images are unwanted.Because it perpetuates the narrative of victimhoodAnd closes a conversation.Because it is staleAnd reinforces a reality we need to change through the power of our imagination.

Above images researched by Mihika Row, Maria George, Madhulika Mohan and Nikhila Nanduri. Students from the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology.

Do you have a personal, desired,
imagined, or lived‪'Action Hero'response to experiences of sexual
violence?

Make a sketch. Bring on its colours.
Send it to blurtblanknoise@gmail.com

It could be witty. angry. sad. calm. thoughtful.

Be you - unfiltered. This is your song.

Revisit a scenario. Imagine a response.

Guidelines and parameters:It could include text saying NO and or I Never Ask For It .

Your visual response to building Action Heroes could take the form of a comic strip, poster, a series of facebook profile photos, gifs, stickers.

Blank
Noise will host the archive.
You are the author and creator.

What are the desired possible future of this project:
i) Select images could be a gift to press stock images, so that
they can use these images instead of the 'crouched shamed victim' - the story that is told and perpetuated.